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Porting Unix Command-Line Tools to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-command-lines dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over at Apple has posted a technote on porting Unix programs to Mac OS X. Nothing earth-shattering, but nice to see it all collected."

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  1. its about iTime. by Beatbyte · · Score: 3, Interesting

    its about time. i figured with the BSD core they would be a lot quicker at it than this.

    Especially trying to support some new servers

    Either way, this may help the adoption of the Apple into the IT industry a little more.

    It'll be interesting to see whether or not they're included into the next release of X.

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  2. Re:Makes Mac OS easier to use! by BigBir3d · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I believe the AC was trying to poke fun at Microsoft for moving away from command line while at the same time Apple is moving towards it. Compare Windows 98 to XP and OS 9 to OS X.

  3. Re:So by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because their target market isn't geeks.

    Then why are they selling servers?

    There are far more users who couldn't care less about GNU tools and never want to see a command-line.

    If they put the GNU tools there, non geeks would never know about it.

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  4. Re:Makes Mac OS easier to use! by kalidasa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe the AC was trying to poke fun at Microsoft for moving away from command line while at the same time Apple is moving towards it. Compare Windows 98 to XP and OS 9 to OS X.

    I don't. I think the AC doesn't yet know the difference between a command line interface and a command line tool. He'll learn, he's in the right place.

    I'd shy away from making the Win98:WinXP::OS9:OSX analogy, if I were you. Too many lusers will take it too literally./p.

  5. Re:So by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The current size of Mac OS X is already really, really big. Adding extra tools that a majority of users will not use isn't worth the additional size. It used to be that an install of the Mac OS could fit onto one CD, now it takes two CDs or a DVD for an install.

  6. Easier solution by js62 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you want Unix tools and don't like Apple's, get Yellow Dog Linux and install mac-on-linux. I run my iBook that way and I have instant access to both OS's. No need to reboot to get to the other. OS X runs at near native speeds on top of MOL.

  7. Re:Makes Mac OS easier to use! by Pathwalker · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In versions of MacOS before OSX, the command line was called MPW - you could download it from here.

    Admittedly, installing a development environment is a little overkill to just get a command line, but it would give you one...

  8. Re:So by HSpirit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm the Graphic Designer/IT Guy in a small advertising agency. MacOSX has allowed me to create - entirely for free - our own mail server (fetchmail-sendmail-qpopper), internal job versioning and approval system (Apache-WebDAV), internal messaging application (Apache-perl), firewall (ipfw), remote login (OpenSSH) and probably a myriad of smaller applications that I use without thinking about everyday, all from ported GNU/BSD command-line apps...

    ...all on the same machine that runs our core-business GUI apps: Photoshop, QuarkXPress [unfortunately a hangover from our previous OS9 use] and Acrobat.

    I say horray to the command-line :)